Cooler Heads On Hotter Planet?
Mike Fairbourne of WCCO claims the science behind Global Warming is a “squishy science”.
The Startribune reports Fairborne signed a petition that says ‘We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto … and any other similar proposals’ and quotes Fairborne as saying ‘Do we have to pin everything that happens on global warming? No, we need to have cooler heads.’
Cooler heads sounds reasonable, but I think I’d prefer squishy heads and cooler science.
How do you like your science?
I don’t know how much more evidence folks need.
I saw an infographic somewhere saying that if we were to measure ourselves against Kyoto standards, we’re actually doing much better than a lot of the countries that did sign on.
I can’t believe there are still people that are even skeptical on global climate change.
It’s almost like there has to be a ten degree change before people will believe. Newsflash: A 10 degree change would destroy the world as we know it.
I’m no scientist. That’s why I rely on a scientific consensus in regards to topics such as this. And what we have is a strong scientific consensus saying that the climate is changing.
Denialists give skeptics a bad name.
I don’t doubt climate change, but I do doubt that humans are directly causing it based on only 100 years of data that seems to greatly fluctuate. When my parents were in school, they were told an ice age was coming. Now we’re telling our kids the planet’s growing warmer. Maybe in another 100 years we can vilify ourselves for not causing climate change. :)
What’s that? You wanted to know the science behind human-induced climate change? Okay!
From the link "The other half of the emitted carbon dioxide has been taken up by oceans and the biosphere — where and how exactly is not completely understood: there is a “missing carbon sink.”"
So all we need to do is find the sink drain and build a carbon toilet?
I don’t doubt climate change, but I do doubt that humans are directly causing it based on only 100 years of data that seems to greatly fluctuate.
That’s why there’s science to understand what happened more than 100 years ago.